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Very short sections and subsections clutter an article with headings and inhibit the flow of the prose. Short paragraphs and single sentences generally do not warrant their own subheadings. Headings follow a six-level hierarchy, starting at 1 and ending at 6. The level of the heading is defined by the number of equals signs on each side of the ...
Headings and subheadings can be added by clicking Advanced then Heading in the extra toolbar line which now appears. Selecting "Level 2" will format text as a main heading, the most frequently used subdivision of any page. "Level 3" gives you a subheading for a Level 2 heading, and so on.
Formatting an article in Wiki Markup is different from writing in a standard word processor or in the VisualEditor. Instead of a strict "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) approach, WikiFundi uses text codes called wiki tags to create particular elements of the page (e.g. headings).
Some of these matter; others have no effect on the way that the reader sees headings. Putting a blank line below a heading is completely optional. It makes the wikitext more readable but doesn't affect what the reader sees. Also optional (and the norm) is a single blank line above a heading—it makes no difference to the reader.
The heading must be on its own line, with one blank line just before it; a blank line just after is optional and ignored (but do not use two blank lines, before or after, because that will add unwanted visible space). For technical reasons, section headings should: Be unique within a page, so that section links lead to the correct place.
Section headings. Type two equal signs at the beginning and two more at the end of a line of text. (If you create at least four headings, Wikipedia automatically creates a table of contents, as you'll see in a moment.) Boldface. Type three apostrophes (') before and after the text you want to bold. Italic. Type two apostrophes (') before and ...
Please do not use a "level one" heading (only one equals sign on each side, i.e.: =Heading=). This would cause a section heading as large as the page title at the top of the page. Heading names of sections (including subsections) should be unique on a page. Using the same heading more than once on a page causes problems:
Boldface is often applied to the first occurrence of the article's title word or phrase in the lead.This is also done at the first occurrence of a term (commonly a synonym in the lead) that redirects to the article or one of its subsections, whether the term appears in the lead or not (see § Other uses, below).